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Aortic dissection and accelerated aneurysmal degeneration in a patient with giant cell arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is associated with nonatheromatous aortic pathology. Here we present a case in which a 76-year-old woman with a biopsy-proven history of GCA and a previous repair of her ascending aortic aneurysm presents with an acute dissection of a 4-cm aneurysm in the descending thorac...

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Autores principales: Metias, Maged, Kelian, Salpy, MacColl, Christine, Iyer, Vikram, Rapanos, Theodore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7599380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33163741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2020.07.019